The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-24
A RATHER CURIOUS CASE.
Charleston to Have an Afternoon
Paper Strange Rumblings.

Paper Strange Rumblings.
CHARLESTON, July 23-There is some
| thing uncanny in the verdict of the jury in
the United States District Court, in which
the defendants in a conspiracy case were
! acquitted. The charge was conspiracy
TO bulldoze and intimidato government
witnesses in certain revenue cases
1t is true that the only real evidence of the
alleged conspiracy was the arrest of one of
the government witnesses, and his state
ment that he had been shot at time and
time again, but mot for hurt" only for
skay frighten). But it was further proven,
which is the strangest part of the
story, that there existed on Wad-
malaw Island a club, at the head
of which Is a white trial justice
and the object of which is to rid the Island
of certain lazy and INDECENT negros who ar
rest citizens on trumped up charges of VIC
lating the Internal Revenue laws Here's
a state of things, not that it matters much
about the government witnesses, but for
the reason that it shows a state of things
in the Internal Revenue department that
everybody thought did not exist. 1t was
well known for instance, that under Radical
rule the Revenue office was crowded with
vagabonds of the worst stripe who had not
the slightest hesitation in trumping up
charges against ignorant country people
and dragging them TO Charleston just to
make the fees attached to the office In
fact this was so well known that at one time
there was a general smash-up resulting in the
flight of several deputy marshals and others.
What surprises people here is that the
Wadmalaw ku-klux should have been
called into existence under democratic adj
ministration of the Revenue Department
and that a State judicial officer should be
found at the head of a negro organization
to resist the law The case has set people to
thinking.
MYSTERIOUS NOISES.
Another sensation of the week, not count
ing the heat which was the absorbing sem
sation, is the mysterious Subteranean noises
that have been disturbing "a negro commu-
nifty, living on Main street. In this case it
is not the earth that trembles but the poor
negroes who live in this vicinity. They
swear that since Sunday last they
have heard curious and mysterious
sounds issuing from the bowels of the earth
Not the much dreaded "rumbling" which
has been heard quite often enough within
| the past year, but noises which some of the
frightened negroes declare appear to be
made by an animal burrowing under the
| ground, which others say resembles the
| groans Of IA human being in distress The
correspondent of the MORNING NEWS
undertook an investigation yesterday, but
1t was without any material results | went
| TO the scene OF the mysterious manifesto
| tions about 9 a. m. and remained there for
two hours, but, although the negroes de
clared that the noises had been heard at )
o'clock, there were no manifestations. Con
siderable awe is inspired by the fact that
the disturbed community is built over an
old graveyard.
| THE HOT WAVE
Charleston has had more than her share
of the torrid wave and is painting for relief.
AS matter of fact, the hot wave has boon
| with us for nearly three weeks, and death
| has been very busy during that time Every
| day this week there has been thunder and
| lightning, and rain all around us but never
any in the city, and so the hot wave still
continues and people are flying away to the
| mountains and to the seashore For three
weeks the mercury here has ranged from 81
| to l04'
LITTLE SHAKE
There was a shake In Summerville on
| Thursday night, but it did not extend fur
Their south than the Ten-Mile Hill.
The readers of the MORNING NEWS will
be glad to know that the New Brighton
| Hotel is once more open. 1t is being run on
the European plan and in way that has
given more satisfaction than during any
| year since it was built
AN AFTERNOON PAPER.
| 1t is now authoritatively announced that
| Charleston Is to have an afternoon paper.
| The new concern will be established hy John
| McElree, of Jewclry Palace fame the man
who has managed by his advertisements to
set the whole city by the ears. McElree has
leased building near the Ne,CS and Courier
Office, mas bought the material of the old
journal of Commerce and will mako his
debut as mn editor in a very short time. He
says he has all the money he wants and
that he will make things howl The city
administration is TO be the objective point
Of attack
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